Governing in the 21st century presents new challenges for public officials. Technology is changing the ways we interact as global citizens and how we govern. With billions now online, citizens expect to connect with governments and public sector agencies in a secure, seamless, and reliable environment. Public service employees need to collaborate across multiple agencies and geographies in real time.
Government officials around the world are exploring new ways of doing things in order to cope with the challenges of globalization, economic uncertainty, emerging technologies, and a more connected citizen base. The solutions to these challenges have two factors in common-connecting people and maximizing resources in radically new ways.
The nature of the business-government relationship is also changing. Policymakers are being forced to reassess their models for intervention and find it increasingly difficult to understand and appropriately support industrial development. The credit crisis brought these issues into sharp relief, removing many of the certainties surrounding the stability of developed economies, the transition to a post-industrial economy, and the role of government in providing support for industry.
Government and company efforts to understand how to achieve growth under these new conditions are undermined by a lack of research to support strategy and policy development. Over the past twenty years little attention has been paid to industrial structures, the role of production, and industrial policy in developed economies.
The Centre for Industry and Government aims to provide research to underpin developments in industrial and innovation policy, as well as working directly with governments, in order to support ongoing efforts to improve economic growth. The Centre brings together a diverse set of disciplines which are required to address these challenging issues, from economics to policy analysis. It includes
